The United Teachers Lost Angeles (UTLA) and the school board of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will resume negotiations on Thursday at noon as the ongoing teachers’ strike enters its fourth day.
Officially, the strike is about teachers’ demands for smaller class sizes, additional support staff, and a 6.5% pay raise retroactive to last year (the district is offering 6%, phased in over the next two years).
But unofficially, the strike is about the unions’ effort to stop the growth of charter schools, most of which are not unionized and which are often favored by parents in minority neighborhoods who are frustrated with failing local traditional public schools.
EdSource reports:
Central to the concerns of teachers and union leaders at Los Angeles Unified is the argument that the growth of charter schools in the city has come at the expense of dollars for district schools and the teachers working in them.
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Key to the bitter dispute: Charter schools, which enroll about a fifth of students in Los Angeles Unified, have contributed to a loss of $600 million annually that otherwise would benefit students in district schools, according to union officials, largely because of fixed costs that can’t be reduced even if there are fewer students. Charter backers have pushed back on those figures.
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You just can't keep throwing money at something and expect it to produce a good product. It's time to admit the problem is to resolve a means to educate. Students do not have the skills nor the hardware to succeed in society. They are sent from broken families where the loudest voice gets heard and the most obnoxious actions are ignored. Administrators are too afraid of retaliation by students or their parents or special interest groups to do their job. Let the students, by written, protected voting identify the troublemakers. Then, based on the evidence of votes, deal with those individuals according to their societal needs. Psychological counseling should be available to groom these individuals along with parental support.
ReplyDeleteFixing the education system is like trying to affix a new wing to a crashing airplane.
ReplyDeleteBig deal, it's LA, whether they're educated or not, they're still stupid.
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